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Hello, are there any liquidity promotions like "deposit X amount in our account for Y months and get a free ipad"? A couple years ago Covestor was doing that, it was generally if you deposit $25,000+ in an account for a few months you would get some cool trendy gadget Anything going on...

Hello, what exactly is happening after an earnings release? who is moving the price, why don't the market makers leave and go all illiquid like on most days? after market simply acts very different and no, the series 56 training materials didn't explain why either so lets say earnings came...

lets think Weeklies long 1 atm, short 1 strike otm stock moves very little, 100% gain, stock moves against you 100% loss. unlike a long call, you don't have the issue of time decay for max profit. time decay actually works for you for max profit in a long bcs stock moves up? you are...

Hello, how exactly do you manage a long bull call spread when the stock falls below your break even point? I've seen all sorts of great strategies for when stock moves higher too soon before expiration (rolling up) but do you avg. down? roll down? close the short leg? buy more longs and...

liquid tight spreads, over 2million stock volume daily, much growth potential yeah I'm seen chipotle and priceline, I haven't done any research on them yet

Hello, so I can run a stock screener and see some strong companies, low-no debt, okay profit margins, some other features I like to look for but I was wondering what the names on the street are? I know AAPL but what else is hot? Would the components of say the Investors Business Daily...

Hello, when your call approaches delta 1 do you always roll up? pros: lock in gains, use less capital to continue a position (therefore limiting your loss on a pullback) cons: ??? higher commissions

HEY! I opened some TBT calls today as well. they are very cheap, I think I went with June or July 21s

I wish next week's weeklies were trading today! I bought some lottery tickets, 555 puts on the weeklies! my long gained more than the value of this lottery ticket today, so it is very good. the trade was based on the AAPL monthly option pain location. seen apple and other stocks drop 5% on...

Hello, I had a strategy involving far dated out the money long bull call spreads (long vertical) the max gain on such a thing is about 400% for some reason I forgot why I would do that versus just using a long dated out the money call LEAP why would one do an out the money long...

the algorithm is on my local machine which is connected to a fiber line via wifi algorithm reads book data from software platform provided by firm, using api provided by firm algorithm determines order and route, sends order local machine to internet - 15ms or less order goes to...

yes. on a symbol like BAC I guess it does have to do with getting in first how would I tell what my latency is? it should be less than 1 millisecond distance-wise but 15 milliseconds at most due to wifi

correct. But while I'm waiting I see my ECN of choice having size that is larger and larger, then smaller, and then larger again. So I get a feeling that I'm not in line.

I am using a professional account with direct market access to ECNs. I route directly to my ECN of choice. Servers are co-located but I don't know how to do a ping test to get the exact latency. Lets say, for example, I route directly to EDGX, they have a size of 1200, I add my 1000 shares...

Hello, When adding liquidity I am having difficulty getting filled lets say the quote is 5.15x5.16 and I place a buy order for 5.15499, just a little less than the midpoint I get placed on the 5.15 bid side of the book and only get filled after the quote moves down to 5.14x5x15 or...

SOCL is comprised of mostly Chinese social networks, I don't think its really a good way to get revelant social networking exposure. That ETF is a gimmick. Google and Linkedin are the only US social components on that list, and only linkedin is majority social exposure It is not likely...

I came here looking for a Facebook IPO thread my question was about the size of the secondmarket participants they are ALL trying to flip shares on IPO day, and I need to know if they'll be bigger selling pressure than the real interest in facebook in the past was there such an active...

I have some questions about covered calls. I've never done such a conservative strategy so I am seeking guidance on one scenario: On your very first position (stock + short ATM/OTM calls), what do you do if the stock goes down past the breakeven? Do you stop-out or hold it? The...

open 1 position and close THAT SAME POSITION (or legs of that position) in the same day is a day trade. it has nothing to do with the underlying asset.

very easy to program something like that in Prodigio, Td Ameritrade's thinkorswim platform you can also backtest it to see how often a strategy like that actually fails.